
By Victor Maldonado
Patterns of habit, culture and tradition, are difficult to break. When a habit becomes an addiction it seems impossible to imagine another way of being. The addiction becomes so strong that the addict imagines only catastrophic…
I have thought and felt many things in the course of experiencing a work of art, but Thursday night was a first. My experience, a momentary epiphany, really, was so startling that when I left I fell down a rabbit…

Midori Hirose
Little Field
North alleyway between NE 28th and 29th Avenues off of Alberta Street
6-9 PM
Hirose’s new work stems from her interest in combining “geometric and loose facets” resulting from “an investigation into the…

Ajna Lichau’s video installation “Dominion,” which just closed on Saturday at the Tribute gallery (625 NW Everett #102), explored the representation of control and resignation without being polemical. The video, composed of a single shot,…

Though the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Art Festival doesn’t officially kick off for another couple of weeks, programming begins today at 3 PM with a conversation between TBA:10 artist Anissa Mack and Sarah Miller Meigs and…